Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind

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Life with IPS

What does it mean to be able to track your movements, in real time, at any location in the world, inside, outside, and underground?

Before we begin, it’s important to point out that — just like GPS — IPS doesn’t necessarily betray your location to third parties. IPS can be entirely local to your smartphone (or other portable navigation device). IPS, like GPS, can establish a location fix completely passively. The whole doomsday scenario of Rockefellers and global megacorps tracking your every move is unlikely to come to fruition without plenty of warning (and ample time to stage a rebellion).

Starting out in the shallow end, IPS would enable a whole new range of “real life analytics” apps. If you love how that Nike+ GPS app tracks your running speed and distance, an IPS version would blow your mind. IPS could track exactly how many steps you take and how many stairs you climb — and calculate, quite precisely, how many calories you burnt in the process. IPS could keep a perfect record of how many minutes you spend in the gym (and on which machines). IPS could tell you how many hours you spend in bed, commuting, in the office, and on the toilet.

The true power of IPS, though, would come from linking your real life analytics to other streams of data, such as social graphs and payment systems. IPS could track where and when you are most likely to use Facebook or Twitter, and tell you which locations are conducive to happy (or sad) status updates. IPS could be used to create beautiful heatmaps of where you spend money; you could even play it back in real time and watch your avatar as it bounces around a Google Map, first to Starbucks, then to the train ticket machine, then to the office vending machine, and so on.

Then, imagine if shops and other commercial locations broadcast their current special offers (which could simply be an internet RSS feed that your phone periodically downloads). If IPS detects that you are near a store with a special offer, your phone could alert you. Likewise, your phone could tell you if you’re about to go into Starbucks, but a nearby coffee house is cheaper. Again, this could be done passively, without giving away your location (though I wouldn’t be surprised if some special offers are only available to people who opt into being tracked).

IPS could replace (usually criminally expensive) audio guides in museums — just hold your smartphone up to your ear. Edging towards Big Brother territory, IPS could give parents the ability to track their kids — it could even automatically initiate a phone call, if your kid happens to wander into a store that you don’t approve of (or an R-rated movie). IPS, it goes without saying, would massively simplify indoor augmented reality, too.

Perhaps most excitingly, IPS could herald the creation of real life social networks. By tying into Facebook, IPS could tell you, right this moment, if there’s someone nearby who also wants to play squash or watch an art house film. You could be walking down the street, and your phone could alert you that, just one block over, there’s someone who shares your passion for early DC comics, or some other esoteric topic. We touched on this in another post recently, but IPS could also tell you exactly how many men (or women) are at a given nightclub — or, less contentiously, the nearest venue with a high concentration of <insert topic> geeks.

These real life social networks would require you to share a lot of data with those around you, but think about it: This could finally be an application of mobile computing that turns your attention outwards to those around you, instead of eternally gazing downwards at your smartphone screen.

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Wow, this is so completely awesome…And completely evil at the same time…

m0r1arty

I remember just after the turn of the millennium the concept of IP tracking goods (Wine was the example I remember reading) via a similar theoretical concept. The idea being you could track, via Quality Assurance records, the wine, its vineyard, the bottle and cork makers and other factors all through an RFID barcode which would be tied into an anti-theft / auto-charging system based on the concept in the article. Granted the ‘social’ aspect turns a good profit too – but I don’t think the idea itself is anything new just getting devices into hands which are capable of doing on these tasks has taken time.

Good article, lacks the pre-requisite reptilian overlords angle though :)

The system you mention has been working in the Australian Cattle Industry for many years. We track the movement of every animal from the moment they are born thru to the abattoir. This is done via RFID tags.
Note: By movement I mean transport from farm to farm, not their meandering around the same paddock.

Uh, GPS IS a 3D positioning system. There are always two possible elevation positions for a given reference point based on the signal timing from each satellite. Most devices are required by law to discard the high-altitude variant because only LEO/Ballistic trajectories get up there.

Anonymous

It is 3D, but the geometry works better on lateral co-ordinates than altitude, hence Vertical Dilution Of Position tends to be somewhat greater than HDOP.

In the movie Paranoia was a mention to “3DPS” as a 3D Positioning System. It tracked the geo position but also the height/altitude of a person walking in building. I thought it was nice but as I could read the altitude is a challenge here. I’d like to know if the IPS technology offers a solution here. Is there any progress tracking the exact X, Y, Z point even inside a building or indoors?

That altitude is used in many walking GPS systems, some people have even used it to solve the argument over which of the two pubs is the highest pub in England. I think there are two in the running – one near Yorkshire (Snake Pass I think) and one in Cumbria and there both not far off each other on height, and people have tried to measure the height using GPS. Can’t remember which one won, but with IPS they’ll have to do it all again.

Nicolas Edwards

ips won’t have altitude reading capability. All they are using is wifi hot spot triangulation to find where you are.

Senne Kuyl

Or calculated from a known position (generated from a GPS sensor) based on movements when w. Though WIFI triangulation will probably be the most prevalent as it will be easiest for businesses to participate and ‘inform’ people of their location relative to the person.

So long as I don’t have to download an app per commerce location anor interest I’ll be happy.

Harrison McFarland

I think you are slightly confusing several concepts. When using 5 (or more) satellites, there is only one unique position. This is common in current GPS and Glonass receivers.

If using 4 satellites, the second position is normally about 40,000 kilometers above the earth, so that puts you in a rather high orbit. Law does not require this is discarded, common sense does.

If using 3 satellites, a receiver must use last known altitude (or something similar) to compute the location, so there is no second position ambiguity.

You are talking about COCOM limits,which impose limits on US-manufactured (not foreign) GPS receivers. You have to be above 60,000 feet AND moving faster than 1200 mph to violate this. High altitude balloons are fine, high altitude missiles are not.

Anonymous

Not only is Big Brother watching you, he’s now sending you Payless ads as you walk by the shoe store. Or more likely, sending you Macy’s ads as you walk by Bloomingdale’s….

Tessa

Well considering that GPS doesn’t somehow magically enable McDonald’s to send you ads when you drive past Burger King, I think you’re getting ahead of yourself.

That happens all the time in Manchester, you don’t need IPS for that though, just a bluetooth message transmitter. When I used to work near Piccadilly on my lunch hour I’d go there to get dinner and be bombarded with bluetooth messages for all sorts of rubbish.

Shame I never got an offer for a free meal on my lunch, now that would have made my day!

Peter Kiryluk

The only reason why it does not do that, is the age of the satellites there are like 31 or 35 GPS sats, 21 have been up there since 1989 maybe older, i remember my first gps . They are using 1980’s technology, so you can imagine that the signal being received by the satellite x 1 million people, would be a massive amount of data to send and receive, so we just use the receive. I 1989 GPS unit took 15 minutes to figure out your lat longitude, and even then it was around 15 feet off. I mean total crap. And it cost a 1000$, for this brick looking thing with a small brink attached
on a cord that you would have to put on the ground, wait like 15 minutes, get an error message, redo the steps like 6 time and wala.

Funny you should mention about old satellites – the other day I was using my HTC Desire S and my old HP Travel Companion to get to a location, it was in the middle of nowhere and neither Sat Nav could decide quite which field this house was meant to be in, but I took both along just in case and also to see which out of the two GPS’s were better – I would have assumed the HTC Desire would be better as it’s a phone and it’s using Google maps and the internet connection as well as triangulation with the mobile phone masts to aid it.

Half way there the Desire came up with “GPS Signal Lost” – I was really puzzled at this ‘cos the old HP Travel Companion which I bought when I go my first car back in 2007 was going along quite happily and didn’t notice anything about the “GPS signal lost” situation.

You’d think that a phone that was released in 2011 with a built in GPS and that has the ability to use mobile phone mast data would be far superior to a HP Travel Companion which has no mobile phone mast data at all – the other thing I remember reading somewhere that the HP Travel Companion was actually made by HTC before they started making their own devices (wouldn’t surprise me ‘cos it’s interface is very similar to the HTC’s which is why I went for a HTC – the first HTC Phone I had was a HD2 but that broke and then I went for a Desire ‘cos I wanted one with Android on).

And furthermore the Travel Companion got the right field! The Travel Companion was using TomTom v6.1 and the Desire was using Google Maps.

jtaylor991

I doubt the sensors in a smartphone and a dedicated navigation device would be comparable. Using GPS for say Google Maps directions around town doesn’t require a ton of accuracy, just within a few hundred feet to know what street you’re on and about how far you are from the next stoplight, etc. I’ve been surprised at the detail it seems there is with walking though.

But yeah I doubt a smartphone GPS chip would be anywhere near a handheld “Travel Companion” device.

Yeah . The big brother has turned fat. Now he is the big hamburger. 19122 is the new 1984.

Steven Olsen

Profiling just went from racial to social. Politicians are gonna love it.

Anonymous

All of these IPS strategies sound very battery intensive (BT, Wifi, and NFC), and require setup work on account of the user (Pair the BT, turn on wifi and connect, etc.)

In addition to all the expense of putting in bluetooth beacons in every building, and fact is, most places won’t.

Add to that – My phone and gps nominally work in many indoor places without any help. And I’m on T-mobile’s frequency at that.

The only viable solution that I see, energy wise, and financially would be to add femtocells for this purpose. In addition to drawing no extra power (because the cell radio is already on and searching), this solution provides cell services as well – so it provides an intrinsic value beyond telling me how far it is to the gap store.

Tracking via femtocells is a good idea! I hadn’t thought of it from that angle: Carriers can triangulate your location, but also it would make sense that a handset could triangulate its own position?

I guess this isn’t done at the moment because cells rarely overlap (for cost reasons?). I wonder if you can blanket an area in femtocells, in the same way you can blanket WiFi?

Anonymous

Android phones already use tower triangulation to augment GPS. It’s one of the options in my phone, and helps get a faster, more accurate location.

My GF’s aunt has a Femtocell, and it works very much like wifi, except that the phone automatically picks it up as a standard cell signal.

From what I know, the femtocell solution would be the only reasonable solution, and it would be a quite simple and automatic solution.

There is also a wifi location system out, that may work as well – Tmobile wanted me to register my wifi location for wifi calling – so emergency services can locate a wifi 911 call if needed. The caveat to this is that it would rely on people register the wifi devices with the correct location info.

The ONLY caveat I see to it is that femtocells would not provide wifi service to wifi-only devices. But at some extra expense, I suppose you could make double duty wifi/cell receptors.

Anonymous

Android phones already use tower triangulation to augment GPS. It’s one of the options in my phone, and helps get a faster, more accurate location.

My GF’s aunt has a Femtocell, and it works very much like wifi, except that the phone automatically picks it up as a standard cell signal.

From what I know, the femtocell solution would be the only reasonable solution, and it would be a quite simple and automatic solution.

There is also a wifi location system out, that may work as well – Tmobile wanted me to register my wifi location for wifi calling – so emergency services can locate a wifi 911 call if needed. The caveat to this is that it would rely on people register the wifi devices with the correct location info.

The ONLY caveat I see to it is that femtocells would not provide wifi service to wifi-only devices. But at some extra expense, I suppose you could make double duty wifi/cell receptors.

Nicolas Edwards

femtocells would require more cost for outfitting in areas where wifi are already ubiquitous. I also do not know about power consumptoin. Is cellular going to use less energy than wifi. You will also have to have multiple (3) femtos to get a accurate position.

some_guy_said

You can buy an at home femtocell for only a few hundred dollars (only a little more than wifi.)

As for your question if cellular is going to use less power than wifi…Can you think about that for a minute. Do you walk around the mall with your phone on airplane mode? Your phone is using power for cellular service almost always. The additional power load on your phone to use nearby femtocells is exactly 0.

Nicolas Edwards

triangulation uses energy and a few hundred dollars buys you 4 or more wifi routers compared to 1 femtocell.

some_guy_said

Either way, you are wasting more energy with wifi, because in addition to maintaining your cell connection to make or receive calls, you are also maintaining 3 or more active connections to wifi which you wouldn’t have had to waste energy on.

Any additional energy wasted on triangulation calculations is going to be the same regardless of the source. That’s a terrible pointless argument.

And anything that relies on extra consumer setup every time they need to use it is far less effective than something that already works automatically with existing hardware and software without need for setup or modification – Phones already triangulate based on towers…

Nicolas Edwards

“Either way, you are wasting more energy with wifi, because in addition to maintaining your cell connection to make or receive calls, you are also maintaining 3 or more active connections to wifi which you wouldn’t have had to waste energy on.”

Not true, I don’t think you understand the nature of this technology. You do not have to establish a connection to the wifi or cell towers to find your position. The routers are sending out a beacon signal and just by the strength and ID of the router you can determine your distance from any single router/cell position. Use 3 towers and you can draw a circle around each tower with the distance being the radius, Where the 3 circles radii intersect is your position. So the math behind it is very basic

As for energy I was not looking for an opinion of which uses more…. I would have to look it up to know for sure.

some_guy_said

you don’t understand logic apparently…Your phone would use no extra energy to connect to femto or microcells than it always does. To the phone, it is just connecting and triangulating to a regular cell tower, which is something it ALREADY DOES.

Any energy your phone uses by activating the wifi radio/antenna, and locking onto wifi signals IN ADDITION TO THE CELL SERVICE IT ALREADY USES, is extra energy your phone uses.

Anonymous

yawn…. GPS is still cooler.

Think of it this way, if IPS came out a decade ago and we were just now being introduced to GPS, IT would REALLY be mind blowing compared to this IPS.

Anonymous

*sigh* you completely missed the concept/point.

IPS is not to replace GPS, it is to augment GPS in locations where it is difficult to get an accurate GPS lock with a cellular or mobile device.

Anonymous

nope. I’m not missing the point. I just don’t find the technology ‘mind blowing’ as the article infers. It’s a weak cousin to GPS if it can be compared at all.

Anonymous

exactly, you are missing the point. I never call this mind blowing or awesome.

I was discussing the practicality of using this as a system to augment GPS indoors. I wasn’t comparing it as a separate system. If you are seriously trying to comment against my comment, this would be a classic example of the straw man argument.

If you want to make a carte blanche comment on the artice, make a general comment on the article. Don’t make it as a reply to a comment that has nothing to do with your thought.

Anonymous

dude.. I was commenting on the article. You replied to me. Not the other way around. You must be thinking of someone else. Go away.

Anonymous

Oh wait, sorry, I got a little mixed up there.

no, you’re entirely missing the point of IPS. It is not a GPS replacement.

Anonymous

Oh wait, sorry, I got a little mixed up there.

no, you’re entirely missing the point of IPS. It is not a GPS replacement.

Right. that might have some purpose if you live in europe. The ESA is not a particularly gifted space agency, and will take forever to get global coverage.

Each system is not particularly special compared to the others really. The real benefit of multiple systems is to have multiple systems available to achieve a better faster lock on your location.

Their are dual GPS/Glasnoss phones systems coming out that use both systems together. Great for cities with tall buildings.

Anonymous

I’ve heard that Galileo will provide a precise location accuracy of up to 3 feet (1 metre), it will also offer other services directly to a device as well. The biggest draw back how ever, is like you what mention, it is prospected to be fully operation only by 2020 (if even that).

I honestly think it is quite ridiculous that we live in a socio-political structure where so many countries are making their own GNSS systems, when we should really all work together create the single most perfect GNSS system that is the possible.

Anonymous

commercial GPS systems get up to 3 Meter accuracy, and there are ways to improve on that. We don’t actually know the true accuracy of GPS because the military is kind of sketchy about opening up full capabilities of GPS.

Although it is understood that the other systems, glasnoss, galileo, etc are newer and have presumably better technology, and theoretical accuracy.

“I honestly think it is quite ridiculous that we live in a
socio-political structure where so many countries are making their own
GNSS systems, when we should really all work together create the single
most perfect GNSS system that is possible.”

Actually, they are creating the perfect GNSS…

As new GPS devices are able to connect to multiple navigation systems, you achieve the same result as having a single super gps system.

Furthermore, since the systems operate on slightly different bands, it gives you more flexibility, reliability, and accuracy than a single band system, like GPS alone.

The navigation systems can be used on a complementary basis, not just in a singular basis.

Jim Smith

Military GPS is accurate to 0.3 meters…

Anonymous

Interesting to see how soon it becomes integrated with augmented reality!

Am I the only one who now believes that we are very close to having chips inserted in our body? In a decade from now, privacy will become a thing of the past (although every large organization nowadays seems to care about your privacy).

why would we need chips if we all carry the latest and greatest Apple device

joeaverager

Just opt out of having a cellphone or a brain implant. I still don’t own a cellphone. Can’t see the utility in it. I have a phone at home and a phone on my work desk. Anywhere else – I don’t want phone calls. I know I sound like I’m 90 years old but I’m not – just middle aged. Also work IT support.

David Lean

Nice opportunity for personal use.

Unfortunately for criminals this is even better & more accurate than foursquare. And so many people have had their homes robbed by burglars who used foursquare to watch them leave their home, track them while they are out, ensuring they have sufficient time to take your stuff & be gone before you get home.
Be careful with what personal details you make available to the world.

Love the assertion “so many people have had their homes robbed by burglars who used foursquare.” Do you have any facts to back that one up? I’ve searched and not found any – just lots of scare tactics and friend-of-friend rumours. The huge majority of burglaries here and most places are still from druggies looking for anything they can sell to finance their next hit — hardly the type of mastermind criminals who pick a specific target and then monitor foursquare to find an optimum time to rob that target.

prsplayer210

there has been specific cases in my town of people being burglarized by people who can track you. they had an article in the paper not a month ago

Anonymous

Heh, and when this IPS will be used by authorities to find out your location and track your movements 24/7 wherever you are, maybe you will start thinking about your privacy. And then companies like Jammer-Store.com will suddenly become even more needed and privacy will be protected not by the laws but only via signal jammers.

preilly2

I can see large corporations and governments cooperating, sharing information relevant to their common interest: knowing everything about everybody so they can wield maximum power and control.

You don’t get it. These technologies are extensions of our minds. They’re improvements to our ability as humans. We are becoming smarter, faster, and more prudent. We are very close to our technology becoming physically part of us. Though I suppose you have no desire to see such a remarkable thing.

Vigilarus

Too much reliance upon techno-crutches weaken our innate abilities and skills. There are benefits to brain health and skill maintenance from challenging ourselves regularly with real-world demands on memory, navigation, and discernment. For example, one reason that American students perform so poorly in international comparisons is that they use calculators and over-rely on technology in the classroom.

Moreover, technology fails sometimes and having those skills in place is good to have. Sure, high technology is good to have, but in context and not exclusively.

Parviz Parvizi

Lighthouse Signal Systems conducted field tests comparing its indoor positioning technology with Google’s at Vallco Cupertino & Home Depot (places where Google has deployed indoor location). Videos of the head-to-head results are at: http://www.lighthousesignal.com/news/. At Vallco Cupertino, Lighthouse was able to differentiate floors with 5-10 meter accuracy while Google had no floor differentiation and 55 meter errors. At Home Depot, Lighthouse saw 5 meter accuracy versus 20 meter errors with Google.

Google’s wi-fi IPS is already built into things like Google Chrome, this is how My Location works with Google maps and uses local wi-fi to determine your location, but I find it to be useless. I’ve had to override it with my own settings because it kept thinking that my computer was in London on the banks of the river Thames.

I have no idea how it figured that one out though ‘cos it certainly wasn’t very accurate. I’m about 170 miles from London in Shropshire, it is close with us being on the banks of the river, we do have a few rivers in this area, just not the Thames!

I can’t even begin to figure out how it is working this one out because if it used the IP address first it would at least get it down to being somewhere in the Shropshire/Worcestershire area, and then use wi-fi to eliminate in further. Plus in our area we only have about 3 wi-fi signals (we are very remote here), and I’m quite sure that on the banks of the Thames in London there are far more than 3 wi-fi signals. So it’s not really very accurate, I think Google need to go back to the drawing board with their IPS.

prsplayer210

it probably is where your isp source i imagine? ips works great on my pc i live in houston,tx area it is accurate to about five feet

Yes I guess seeing as Google are an American company they’ve developed it first to work perfectly within the US, and England are trailing behind a bit on this one. It’s also possibly because when Google collected all that Wi-fi SSID data in the states they were allowed to keep it, but in the UK the EU stepped in and said that storing SSID’s was illegal and breach of privacy, sometimes these EU rules severely restrict progression for stupid things, anyone can see an SSID if it’s not hidden anyway so what’s the problem with Google remembering it, it’s open information anyway.

FotiosLindiakos

Am I the only person who gets completely annoyed at reading articles talking about GPS and “triangulation”? GPS does NOT use triangulation, it uses trilateration. Your GPS receiver has no idea what angle the satellite is from you, only the lateral “distance”.

As we all noticed that in now a days where technologies are highly developed there a lots of new modern techniques are being updated or introduced in regular intervals, here also we found one of them which helps to generate vehicles through the process of GPS systems, that allows the user to find or to locate their preferred location with the help of satellite signals, really one of the most exciting gadget to use.

In other words, IPS is a complete and total load of bollocks that does nothing to revolutionalize your life but take up more of your time throwing useless information at you… contrived ‘progress’ at it’s very best.

*List does not include major software developers, hardware manufacturers or internet access providers, also under NSA surveillance contract.

Daydreamer

They could really use this at Harrah’s Casino and Hotel in Cherokee NC. The place is so big we had serious difficulty navigating our way around by foot, and when it was time to leave had trouble finding the parking deck we parked in.

Charles Kelly

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Allen

The article is interesting, but overlooked the urgent necessity of locating a 9-1-1 caller who is indoors. Present cell phone location technologies were developed assuming the caller was outdoors, and they generally work well in that environment. But during the decade that this technology was deployed, more and more customers began to use their handsets indoors, replacing their landlines. This is the newest challenge for wireless service providers, and while they are working on it, a solution will take time to develop and deploy.

“we’re very nearly already there”
I had to read that 4 times to say it right. haha

ceithor

Heh-heh, oh, what fun it would be to have a throwaway phone, load this up and put it on a Roomba at work.

Zachary Sonicfast

What makes anyone think that smartphone saturation will be 100% soon?

I always buy a ‘dumb phone’. It just makes takes calls and texts.

It satisfies my needs so why would I want a privacy removing phone like a smartphone?

I can see NO reason why anyone would want to know your altitude, except law enforcement to watch your every move.

Go watch George Orwell’s 1984.
We are almost there.

Oliver Holz

the future of urban warfare will be interesting indeed

James Phillips

I’m thinking that this will revolutionize bike security when a thief comes along and stores a stolen bike in their house and a small IPS system is attached to the bike, you can call the police and tell them an exact location and postcode, IPS could have real potential as anti theft device for vechiles in this way, especially if it’s small enough size

Loman

As long as there is a wifi signal in the area…

Anthony

can we go back to the 70s now?

Ko Ko Htoo

Think GPS is cool? IPS will blow your mind

Thomas

Already since 2006 there are suppliers like infsoft (www.infsoft.com) providing indoor positioning and navigation solutions i.e. for airports or trade fairs. The technology is mostly based on WiFi and BLE/iBeacon combined with the sensors of the smartphone.

novel_compound

OK, so GPS and GLONASS measure latitude and longitude more accurately than they measure altitude. That doesn’t make it correct to say that “they only really operate in two dimensions.”

My Phone’s “GPS” (and Software) takes WPS, GLONASS and GPS all together, combining the Data to formulate a Location. If I sit in one spot for a while I can get closer than scary accurate, just hit the button and it ‘Google Map Zooms in on you’.

IPS is not what will be the next greatest thing, even old-time “Motion Sensors” were a crude means to determine if someone were within the device’s view. More modern “Indoor Systems” can determine ‘who is where’ (which whould need to be transmitted to the User to be exactly equal to “IPS” (as it is described in this Article)).

The next greatest thing (in this Category) will be a “Google Tango Phone” and Photosynth Mashup combined with what must surely be called “EPS” (Exact Positioning System).

By having a device that “knows” it’s precise location (and direction it is “pointing”) you can take Photos and stitch them together, along with “Post-its” and “Map Pins” (all Digital). This could produce a “Google Maps” that was 3D.

MominuzzamanMomin

Very
interesting post

kokoro dudu

IPS would drive the next wave of online dating. Awesome!

Truck Tracking

Can you set your web map to be able to zoom in closer? I like the buffers, etc, but can’t get in close enough to really see the differences. TRUCK TRACKING

Nicholas Crimaldi

Or you could just look the store up…

Ajay

Awesome boss !

ron cee

“as smartphone saturation reaches 100%”

Be prepared to wait for quite a long time. You will have a hard time finding 100% smartphone usage in the public sector. Matter of fact, you will have a hard time finding 100% participation in any endeavor.

nope. I’m not missing the point. I just don’t find the technology ‘mind
blowing’ as the article infers. It’s a weak cousin to GPS if it can be
compared at all
by jaring pengaman gedung | jaring bangunan

John Drunen

Does this mean we are an antenna? is that why so many spiratual rituals involve movement or posistions , is this proof of God. Humans will finally have proof were not alone , if we are a tranmitter and a reciever by nature then lets turn that switch on naturally.

TravisJSays

“Google’s approach tracks you via
WiFi — it knows where the WiFi hotspots are in a given building, and
through signal strength triangulation it can roughly work out where you
are.”

Who needs this shit? NOBODY. Every notice how friggin brainless most asians are? Americans will be the same if this keeps up. Yeah. Lets keep everyone’s minds on gadgets and other needless things instead of whats really important.

Hi—
I am in need of an application that can track the exact location of any cellular or GPS device, active and in real time, but I do not require 3 dimensional representations. Put a dot on the map corresponding to the phone number I enter~~ movement across the terrain is highly desirable, but not critical to my specific needs. Ground level, high up in the mountains, or below sea level doesn’t matter at all. XXX-XXX-XXXX phone number input, I need a real time position across the surface of the Earth, regardless of altitude.

2-D request here~~ I have a congenital visual impairment that categorically precludes perception of depth. 3-D movies look normal with the glasses, and a bit blurry without. With no need for enhancements I’ll never be able to appreciate, let’s cut the co$t$–:).

The links to this site’s host are dead, so I’m posting an email here instead….
Thanks —-

ashu16jain

Micello company does that

Leandra Golub

Valuable writing , I learned a lot from the information – Does someone
know where my business might be able to obtain a sample a form form to
fill out ?

huehuehe

All the creepy possibilities described already apply so why not smile for the evil camera?

In truth, the use of this tech could revolutionize virtual/enhanced reality aplications.

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